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  Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[=o]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS.
     st[=o]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[=o]ll, Sw.
     & Dan. stol, Goth. st[=o]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ.
     stol'; from the root of E. stand. [root]163. See Stand, and
     cf. Fauteuil.]
     1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
        made in various forms for various uses.
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     2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an
        evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
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     3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]
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     4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the
        dead-eyes of the backstays. --Totten.
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     5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --J. P. Peters.
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     6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a
        footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
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     7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
        for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]
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     Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat
        piece upon which the window shuts down, and which
        corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States,
        the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual
        sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window
        seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.
  
     Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.]
  
     Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others
        within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.
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  Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[=o]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS.
     st[=o]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[=o]ll, Sw.
     & Dan. stol, Goth. st[=o]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ.
     stol'; from the root of E. stand. [root]163. See Stand, and
     cf. Fauteuil.]
     1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
        made in various forms for various uses.
  
     2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an
        evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  
     3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]
  
     4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the
        dead-eyes of the backstays. --Totten.
  
     5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --J. P. Peters.
  
     6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a
        footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  
     7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
        for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]
  
     Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat
        piece upon which the window shuts down, and which
        corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States,
        the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual
        sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window
        seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.
  
     Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.]
  
     Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others
        within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.